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By day, I'm a product manager serving a group of fantastic engineers at Square.
By night, I fight crime and solve mysteries with a robot pal of my own creation.
By midday, I like a snack, generally a cookie.
Part of this biography isn't true (hint, I like cookies and engineering, I don't own a robot)
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Author Archives: Chris Heisel
Single serving sites: Now unhip
[Single](http://www.godsdamnit.com/) [serving](http://r33b.net/) [sites](http://www.instantrimshot.com/) — thanks [Kottke](http://www.kottke.org/) for [the name](http://www.kottke.org/08/02/single-serving-sites) — are all the rage. But now, they must be considered un-hip, for I [have one](http://iwantopenid.com/). From now until I decide to stop doing it [iwantopenid.com](http://iwantopenid.com/) will display the name of … Continue reading
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Recap of Fortune Interview with Steve Jobs
Recap of Fortune Interview with Steve Jobs – Best quote: “People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other … Continue reading
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Online ads are priced right
There’s a good interview with the [CEO of an online ad firm at Silicon Alley Insider](http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/2/24_7_real_media_ceo_david_moore) that raises a very good point about **Internet advertising rates**: Moore: The fact of the matter is the Internet has been either dramatically underpriced … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Technology
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Quote of the day: NITF
“OMG I can hear the clunking sounds coming from the [NITF website](http://www.nitf.org/)” — IM conversation with [Zellyn](http://www.zellyn.com)
Posted in Journalism, Programming, Technology
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My first Django snippet: Another Memcache status view
Hooray! I posted by first Django snippet today. It’s a [status view for your memcache server(s)](http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/597/). I had originally used [this snippet](http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/54/), but the regex and socket thing never quite sat right with me. Turns out that django.core.cache has a … Continue reading
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